Firearm.



C. A. NELSON.

FIREARM.

APPLICATION FILED OCT-23,1915.

1, 178,592. Patented Apia 11; 1916.

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cu. WASHINGTON. l). c.

Original application filed August 24, 1914, Serial N 0. 858,256. Divided and this application filed October UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

CHARLES A. NELSONJOF UTICA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SAVAGE ARMS COMPANY, OF UTICA, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

23, 1915. Serial No. 57,465.

To all whom it may concern: 5

Be it known that I, CrLmLns A. NnLsoN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Firearms, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention consists in a novel connection between the tubular magazine and barrel structures of a gun of the tubular magazine type, the principal objects being to simplify the construction and pro duce a strong connection between said structures.

The invention further consists in a novel means to releasably lock the follower member in the magazine tube, the principal object being to produce a lock-connection that is at once reliable and may yet be established and disestablished in afacile man- In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side' elevation, partly in section, of the fore part of a tubular magazine gun provided with the present improvements; Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line .7c:v of Fig. l; and, Fig. 3 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the magazine.

a is the receiver and b the barrel.

The magazine tube 0, having the usual feeding aperture (Z, is fitted at its rear end in any well known manner into the receiver a, being thereby supported at said rear end. Said tube is further supported, by being connected to the barrel, by one or more metallic straps or stirrups c in the novel manner illustrated in the drawing, wherein divergent holes 7 are shown formed in the under side of the barrel into which the ends 9 of the straps are driven in such a way that when the joint is complete the strap tightly embraces the magazine tube, preferably holding it against any motion whatever. The connection thus afforded is one which may obviously be formed with facility and inexpensively and makes a stout and reliable joint between the parts.

The follower member in the present in stance is shown as including the follower proper Z, the head m and the spring a interposed between the follower proper and head, and also the tube 0 which houses the spring and is fitted over and suitably secured to the reduced portion 072/ of head at and has atlits free end the shoulder 0" (rot-mea by sultably contracting tube 0) which limits the rearward movement of the follower proper under the impulse of the spring. The follower member is free to be turned in the magazine tube 0 by rolling its head, which has the wide groove ;0 formed in and around it, between the thumb and forefinger. For locking the follower member against withdrawal when home I provide the springpressed catch q which is pivoted at its outer end in a longitudinal slot 1" in the head and has a tooth s at its inner end protruding through a hole 25 in the tube 0 and beveled at its inner side. Said tooth is adapted to engage with one or the other of two diametrically opposite transverse slots a formed in the magazine tube. WVhen the follower member is introduced into the magazine tube and is nearly home, the catch g is cammed down by contact of the beveled surface of its tooth with the mouth of said tube and upon the follower member being full home in the magazine tube if the catch does not at once spring back to its normal position a slight turn of the follower in the magazine tube, by rolling the follower head between the thumb and forefinger, will bring its tooth into register with one of the slots, so that it may enter the same and lock the follower member against withdrawal. The removal of the follower is accomplished quite as easily, rolling the head thereof between the thumb and forefinger causing the catch, which traverses the groove p, to move into the releasing position.

The present application is a division of my application Serial Number 858,256.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In combination, the barrel structure, an elongated structure arranged parallel therewith, and means to secure said structures together including a strap of stiff material snugly embracing one of said structures and having its end portions divergent and received in divergent holes in the other of said structures.

2. In a gun, the combination of a magazine tube, a follower member telescoped and freely rotati've therein and projecting therefrom, and a catch movable and having an exposed manually engaged actuated portion in the projecting part of said member, said tube having means to engage the catch and coacting therewith to retain said member against withdrawal from the tube and permitting turning movement of the follower member.

3. In a gun, the combination of a maga zine tube, a follower member telescoped and freely rotative therein and projecting-there- 1 from, the projecting portion of said member having a finger receiving groove extending therea-round, and a catch movable in the projecting part of said member and protruding at said groove, said tube having means to engage the catch and coacting therewith to retain said member against withdrawal from the tube and permitting turning movement of the follower member.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CHARLES A. NELSON.

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